Posts Tagged ‘God’

I was reading the story of Jonah in my quiet time this week and God just showed up and showed me some great insight. Jonah is this prophet who heard Gods voice, and after hearing Gods voice RAN AWAY. I don’t know about you but the one thing I am longing for in life is to hear Gods voice to give me direction. The interesting thing of the story is that the reason he ran was because he did not want to do what God was calling him to do.

I think that you and I are very similar this way. We so badly want to hear Gods voice if it is what , but if it isn’t we question whether it was really God or just some pizza we ate last night. I believe that God is calling us to do all kinds of things in life that we don’t want to do that will really help others. Jonah was called to go to Ninevah and proclaim Gods judgement so the people would repent. Sounds like a good thing to me, people coming back to God, but I don’t think the point of the story was truly to have Ninevah repent but was really about the condition of Jonah’s heart. See Jonahs heart had become hardened for people, which is the very heart of God. So I think in Gods infinite wisdom he called Jonah to move on His behalf so He could do a work from the inside out.

God is in the business of working on the outside circumstances of helping people so He can do an incredible work on the inside of us.

What is that thing that God has called you to do that you are running from?

Who do you need to help so God can help you?

Where do you need to go so God can take you where you need to end up?

Let’s not just want to hear Gods voice but lets run to and not away from what He tells us to do.